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This book argues that Aelian's highly influential compilation, De natura animalium, offers a sophisticated literary critique of Severan Rome.
This book argues that Aelian's highly influential compilation, De natura animalium, offers a sophisticated literary critique of Severan Rome.
Über den Autor
Steven D. Smith is Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University, New York. He is the author of Greek Identity and the Athenian Past in Chariton: The Romance of Empire (2007).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction. Approaching the De natura animalium; 1. The independent intellectual; 2. Animals and agroikoi in Aelian's Rustic Letters; 3. The hazards of variety; 4. The Hellenized Roman; 5. Stoicism; 6. Animals, divinity, and myth; 7. Egypt and India; 8. The sexual animal; 9. Bees, lions, eagles: Aelian and kingship; 10. After animals: the women of the Varia Historia; Conclusion. 'Nature produces animals with many voices and many sounds, you might say ...'; Appendix: reconstructing Aelian's Katêgoria tou Gunnidos.
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Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
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Fachbereich: | Regionalgeschichte |
Genre: | Geschichte |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Seiten: | 322 |
ISBN-13: | 9781108401937 |
ISBN-10: | 1108401937 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Smith, Steven |
Hersteller: | Cambridge University Press |
Maße: | 229 x 152 x 17 mm |
Von/Mit: | Steven Smith |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 13.01.2017 |
Gewicht: | 0,469 kg |
Über den Autor
Steven D. Smith is Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Hofstra University, New York. He is the author of Greek Identity and the Athenian Past in Chariton: The Romance of Empire (2007).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction. Approaching the De natura animalium; 1. The independent intellectual; 2. Animals and agroikoi in Aelian's Rustic Letters; 3. The hazards of variety; 4. The Hellenized Roman; 5. Stoicism; 6. Animals, divinity, and myth; 7. Egypt and India; 8. The sexual animal; 9. Bees, lions, eagles: Aelian and kingship; 10. After animals: the women of the Varia Historia; Conclusion. 'Nature produces animals with many voices and many sounds, you might say ...'; Appendix: reconstructing Aelian's Katêgoria tou Gunnidos.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Regionalgeschichte |
Genre: | Geschichte |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Seiten: | 322 |
ISBN-13: | 9781108401937 |
ISBN-10: | 1108401937 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Smith, Steven |
Hersteller: | Cambridge University Press |
Maße: | 229 x 152 x 17 mm |
Von/Mit: | Steven Smith |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 13.01.2017 |
Gewicht: | 0,469 kg |
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